> MAC addresses are trivially rewritable or fakeable. That wont give you > security. Similarly if the terminal servers are over ethernet then decnet > is also trivially spoofable How do you spoof MAC addresses? I thought they were hard-coded in the ethernet hardware/firmware. Why would any ethernet card maker let anyone easily write into ethernet firmware? Doesn't that defeat the whole idea of ethernet addresses being unique? I guess hackers can easily make their own devices that intercept ethernet traffic and replace ethernet addresses with arbitrary addresses. David chen@cooper.edu > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
